LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY
Danceproduction
explores male vulnerability, with the Adam’s apple as a symbol of masculinity and fragility
SHIBUI Collective 2025
Artistic direction|Choreography Emi Miyoshi
in collaboration with Dancer Johannes Blattner, Marģers Vanags
Music Tom Schneider (FARN Kollektiv)
Dramaturgy Edan Gorlicki (Inter-Actions)
Lighting Steffen Melch
Photo|Video Marc Doradzillo
Projektleitung, Tanzvermittlung & Assistenz Anna Kempin
Press Christine Eyssel
Production SHIBUI Collective
A co-production with E-WERK Freiburg
Initiated by an invitation to participate in the project “48 Dance” (Roxy Ulm) under the artistic direction of Dana Ruttenberg. The impulses and encounters that arose there formed the starting point for the creation of this production. Artistic collaboration in the context of research and residency: Philipp Raiß
Supported by the City of Freiburg and Landesverband Freie Tanz- und Theaterschaffende Baden-Württemberg e.V. (State Association of Independent Dance and Theater Artists of Baden-Württemberg) with funds from the Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg. With the kind support of Roxy Ulm, Pole-Sud Strasbourg, Tanznetz Freiburg.
Premiere
WEDNESDAY 15.10.2025. 8.30PM
Additional performances
TH 16.10. 8:30pm (public discussion)
FR 17.10. 8:30pm
SA 18.10. 8:30pm
SU 19.10. 7:30pm
E-WERK Freiburg
Eschholzstr. 77, 79106 Freiburg
Admission & Advance booking
20,- /15,- Euro (reduced)
BZ-Kartenservice, Kaiser-Joseph-Str. 229, Tel. 0761 496 8888
Physical Insight
open to all, no prior knowledge required Sun 19 Oct | 6 p.m. | Kammertheater
A physical insight into our creative process, for those who are still planning to see the play, have already seen it, or just want to get some physical input. Everyone is welcome – just drop by, join in, or watch!
Registration: info@shibuicollective.com (number of participants: 10)
Duration: approx. 30 min. | Free admission.
Residency Showing
Fri, Sept. 26 | 12:00 p.m. | Südufer
First insights into the production.
Free admission!
2025
Inspired by Bob Dylan's moment of hesitation during the recording of “We Are the World,” LET'S HEAR IT FOR THE BOY by Emi Miyoshi & SHIBUI Collective opens up a space for male vulnerability. At a time when gender boundaries are becoming more permeable, while at the same time old role models are regaining influence, the Freiburg-based choreographer – the only woman in the artistic team – deliberately approaches the subject from the outside. With a curious gaze and an empathetic attitude, she does not interpret, but penetrates – raw, direct, unadulterated. The focus is on the moment of transition: from breath to voice, from tension to expression, from boy to man. That fragile moment when the invisible becomes visible and vulnerability becomes audible. The Japanese term “nodo botoke,” literally “throat Buddha,” makes the Adam's apple a poetic symbol of maturation and hidden vulnerability—where the voice arises and falters. Together with renowned theater director Tom Schneider (FARN Kollektiv), who composed the music for the piece, and dramaturg Edan Gorlicki (INTER-ACTIONS), Miyoshi creates an intimate, immersive setting in the chamber theater: two dancers and the audience share a space in which inner experience, outer expression, and social attributions collide—and in which vulnerability can be experienced as a unifying force for change.
